Manifold record holder



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MANIFOLD RECORD HOLDER Filed Sept. 27, 1926 i JWM Itl mil l 1M l1 H 1 HIV `U1 I, "If l!) irl f; M im 1 lf i m d Il 1W Ml WW M1705 Patented ug. 6, 1929.

UNHTED STATES CLYDE A. TAYLOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MANIFOLD' RECORD HOLDER.

Application filed September 27, 1926. Serial No. 137,830.

This invention relates to devices for use in making and containing manifold records, and has been designed more especially, although not exclusively, for use by railway repair shops in making the car inspectors record of so-called 4 tinker repairs made to railway cars.

In the instance above cited, it is the practice to makethe record in duplicate at the car, by the repair man as'the repair is made, by the use of carbon paper, the original being sent to the auditor of disbursements, and the carbon copy being filed in the oiiice of the car foreman.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a simple and convenient form of holder and container for the record book which will both facilitate the entry of the items by affording a suitable backing or support for the book while the items are. being written, and also a safe container for the leaves of the book as they are filled and torn out of the latter, to prevent accidental loss. Another object is to provide a simple support and container of the character above specified which may easily be carried in a pocket of the user wit-hout danger of loss of any of the sheets.

Other objects and attendant advantages of the invention will be apparent to persons familiar with manifold record books and holders from the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which I have illustrated a simple and practical embodiment of the invention, and wherein- Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the complete holder and manifold record book therein showing the cover of the latter closed;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the front cover of the book thrown back in a suitable position for the writing of an entry on an original sheet of the book;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section, enlarged, on the line 4 4 of Fig. l;

Fig. 5 is a top edge view;

Fig. 6 is an end elevation.

Describing the holder, this is preferably a generally rectangular sheet-metal structure which may be cut and folded into finished form from a single fiat blank of tin or other thin pliable sheet-metal. 10 designates a flat rectangular wall serving the double function of abottom or rest plate for the record book and an inner wall of a rear pocket for the leaves filled out and torn from the book; said pocket being completed by bending or folding the blank along one edge of the wall 10 to provide a bottom wall 11 and an outer side wall 12 for the pocket. The end portions of the wall 12 are bent at a right angle to form the end walls 13 of the pocket, and the free edges of said end walls are preferably soldered to the plate 10 as indicated at 14 in Fig. 3. The end portions of the wall 10 are bent upwardly and then inwardly at right angles forming bottom and outer walls 15 and 16 respectively of a pair of shallow transversely extending Dockets overlying the ends of the base plate 10. Into one of these transverse pockets (the left as shown in Figs. Q and may be inserted the stub end 17 of the record book, while the opposite or right hand pocket is adapted 'to similarly receive and confine the free end of the book, which latter, being flexible, is readily insertible into, and removable from, said pockets. Continuous with the other longitudinal edge of the base plate 10 isa rectangular flange 1S which serves as a shield or guard for the top edge of the record book. The end portions of the flange 18 overlie and close one end of the transverse pockets, as shown at 18, while the opposite end oi each transverse strip 1G is bent downwardly to forni the opposite end wall 19 of the pocket.

Continuous with the end portions of the free edge of the rear pocket wall 12 are inwardly bent flanges 20 which extend partially across the ends of the mouth of the pocket toward the base plate 10, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, leaving between said flanges and base wall narrow slots 2l for the insertion of the torn leaves from the record book; the flanges 2O serving as guards to check accidental escape of the leaves from the pocket.

22 designates as an entirety the body of the record book the same consisting of superposed leaves for the original and carbon entries detachably connected to the stub 17 by the usual perforated lines 23, and top and bottom covers 24e and 25 respectively. Between the bottom cover and the lowermost leaf may be inserted one-half of a carbon sheet 26, the other half of which may be folded over the top or bottom edge of the leaves and successively inserted between original and copy leaves as the latter are filled out and removed from the book and deposited in the rear pocket.

In the practical use of the device, the holder is loaded by inserting the stub and free ends of the book into the transverse end pockets beneath the strips 16 which hold the book in place resting squarely on the bottom or base plat-e l() of the holder. To fill out a record, the top cover 24C is folded back and the free flap of the carbon sheet is properly inserted between the top and the next to the top leaves of the book. These leaves having 'been lilled out, they are torn from the book and then deposited edgewise into the pocket on the rear of the holder. Then the book is used up, the leaves in the rear pocket may be readily removed by inverting the holder to a position slightly tilted from the vertical so that the leaves tend to fall toward the rear Wall 10 of the pocket and then shaking the holder whereupon the leaves readily fall out in succession through the slots 2l. ln the practical use of the device as a record of repairs in the railwayshop, at the end of the days Work the inspector and repair man removes the forms written up that day from the rear pocket of the container and sends both the originals and the duplicates to the car foremans clerk who assembles all forms turned in by the inspectors at that point for that dayand numbers them in consecutive order. He then places on tile the carbon copy, Which will constitute the original rectar as the novel features are concerned, the specific data olthe record book and the subsequent manner of handling the filled data are immaterial.

I claini- 1. A manifold record holder, comprising a generally rectangular sheet-metal structure having a rigid flat Wall adapted to support a manifold record book and carbon sheet for the making of entries therein, transverse pockets extending across the ends of said .wall on one side of the latter open on their inner sides to receive the stub and tree ends .of said book, and a pocket on the other side of, and commensurate with, said Wall to contain leaves torn from said book.

2. A manifold record holder, 'comprising a generally rectangular sheet-metal structure formed With a rigid flat Wall adapted to support a manifold record book, an upstanding flange en a longitudinal edge of said Wall forming a guard for the top edge of said book, transverse pockets extending across the ends of said Wall on the front side of the latter open on their inner sides to receive the stub and free ends ot said book, and a pocket on the rear side of said Wall to contain leaves torn from said book, the mouth of said rear pocket extending lengthwise of the upper edge of said structure. Y

3. A structure as dened in claim EZ, with the additional provision of one or more transversely bent flanges partly closing the mouth of said pocket to prevent accident-al escape of the leaves therein.

CLYDE A. TAYLOR. 

